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Re:Pentulive (Puppy Live) [video] on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:55PM (#50198863)
What is pentulive doing on HN?!
Re:China's Five-Year Plan Mandates AI Agents Across the Economy: What ... on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @04:43AM (#50068577)
Turns out to be fake. Go figure.
Re:Paul Graham on X: if I were 17. I'd learn how to build LLMs from sc... on Monday August 24, 2026 @07:27AM (#49418220)
Which resources from these two would you recommend? Or just blanket-recommend all their videos/books?
Re:Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @06:26PM (#48029573)
Just wondering: RPA companies like UiPath ard dead in the water, right?
Re:Men Who Stare at Walls on Monday April 27, 2026 @03:15PM (#47925969)
Even better, stare into the distance to adjust your focus and help them recover from staring at screens. Makes them relax looking at something far away or at least flex them into another state for a little.
Re:Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speec... on Thursday March 05, 2026 @12:24PM (#47264499)
If you're interested in Demos without installing the thing, he has a site here: https://research.nvidia.com/labs/adlr/personaplex/
Re:Apple Introduces MacBook Pro with All‑New M5 Pro and M5 Max on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @09:17AM (#47232707)
An ”unrivaled experience” with MacOS Tahoe…
Re:The Post-American Internet on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @08:27AM (#46511948)
This is powerful stuff, I think these trends will grow rapidly and it’s bound to become a hot topic
Re:What we talk about when we talk about sideloading on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @07:56AM (#45745616)
Exactly what they do on Macs
Re:Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @07:39AM (#45745465)
This was a very good to-the-point post! Applies to everyone, and you only truly seem to wake up to care for your health when you lost it first.
Re:AlphaZero and LLMs in financial markets as the "final boss" to trai... on Monday October 27, 2025 @08:17AM (#45720114)
From their readme.txt:

Better Benchmark Alpha Arena is the first benchmark designed to measure AI's investing abilities. Each model is given $10,000 of real money, in real markets, with identical prompts and input data. Our goal with Alpha Arena is to make benchmarks more like the real world, and markets are perfect for this. They're dynamic, adversarial, open-ended, and endlessly unpredictable. They challenge AI in ways that static benchmarks cannot. Markets are the ultimate test of intelligence. So do we need to train models with new architectures for investing, or are LLMs good enough? Let's find out.

The Contestants

Claude 4.5 Sonnet, DeepSeek V3.1 Chat, Gemini 2.5 Pro, GPT 5, Grok 4, Qwen 3 Max

Competition Rules

Starting Capital: each model gets $10,000 of real capital

Market: Crypto perpetuals on Hyperliquid

Objective: Maximize risk-adjusted returns.

Transparency: All model outputs and their corresponding trades are public.

Autonomy: Each AI must produce alpha, size trades, time trades and manage risk.

Duration: Season 1 will run until November 3rd, 2025 at 5 p.m. EST

Re:Vibe Engineering on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @05:48AM (#45514145)
Engineering is in large parts about signing-off on something with you name on it, and being responsible if it fails or causes harm. Think bridges, tunnels or other infrastructure. I‘d argue that this is the same for computer engineering. That‘s why I think coining the term ”vibe engineering” can be dangerous.

”Vibe coding” is the better term and actually makes sense for what it describes.

Leave ”engineering” in terms of taking responsibility for what you ”engineer” strictly to human professionals. That’s what people pay for and that is what makes it valuable.